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by Catholic Healthcare Partners. eHealthConnection.com
allows users to access health related information that is provided by us and
third party content suppliers. The information provided on the eHealthConnection.com
Website is for general informational purposes only. None of the information
provided on the eHealthConnection.com Website constitutes, directly or indirectly,
the practice of medicine, the dispensing of medical services, a professional
diagnosis or a treatment plan. The information on the eHealthConnection.com
Website should not be considered complete nor should it be relied on to suggest
a course of treatment for a particular individual. You should not rely on information
provided on the eHealthConnection.com Website as a substitute for personal medical
attention, diagnosis or hands-on treatment. You should never disregard medical
advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on the eHealthConnection.com
Website. If you have any health care related concerns, please call or see your
physician or other qualified health care provider. Never discontinue treatment
or medication without first consulting your physician, clinicians or therapists.
CHP does not make any representations or warranties as to the opinions or other
service data you may access, download or use as a result of the use of this
Site. Nor does CHP make any warranty that the Content contained on the Site
satisfies government regulations requiring disclosure of information on prescription
drug products.
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Disclaimer - General.
The eHealthConnection.com website is provided "as is" and without
warranty, express or implied. All warranties with regard to the accuracy, reliability,
timeliness, usefulness or completeness of the information contained on the eHealthConnection.com
website are expressly disclaimed. All implied warranties of merchantability
and fitness for a particular use are hereby excluded.
Assumption of Risk; Waiver.
Your use of the eHealthConnection.com website is solely at your own risk.
Neither CHP nor any entity or individual with which CHP contracts in connection
with the operation of the eHealthConnection.com website ("contractor")
shall be liable or responsible to any person or entity for any loss or damage,
including special, incidental, consequential, punitive or indirect damages,
caused, or to have been caused (including, but not limited to, liability arising
out of contract, negligence, strict liability, tort, patent or copyright infringement)
directly or indirectly by or from the information or ideas contained, suggested,
or referenced on the eHealthConnection.com website or for any errors, misstatements,
inaccuracies or omissions in the information or ideas contained on the eHealthConnection.com
website or any delays or interruptions in the use of the eHealthConnection.com
website. You hereby release and forever waive any and all claims you may have
against CHP, its contractors and any of their respective officers, directors,
employees and agents, if any, for losses or damages you sustain in connection
with your use of the eHealthConnection.com website, even if you have advised
CHP or any contractor of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the total liability of CHP, its contractors, their respective officers,
directors, and agents, if any, for losses or damages shall not exceed the paid
by you for the particular information or service provided. Use of the eHealthConnection.com
website constitutes and acceptance of these provisions.
Disclaimer - Indemnification.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless CHP, its contractors, and their respective
officers, directors, employees, agents, information providers and suppliers
from and against any claims, lawsuits, proceedings, costs, attorney's fees,
damages or other losses resulting from your use of the eHealthConnection.com
website.
Disclaimer - External links.
The eHealthConnection.com Website contains links to third party websites. These
links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement
of the content on such third-party websites. We are not responsible for the
content of linked third-party sites and do not make any representations, warranties
or covenants regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third-party
websites. If you decide to access linked third-party websites, you do so at
your own risk. Your use of third-party websites is subject to the terms and
conditions of use for such sites.
Disclaimer - Public Areas
You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable
information (for example, user name, e-mail address) on the bulletin boards,
chat areas and other interactive areas (collectively, "Public Areas")
of the eHealthConnection.com Website, that information, along with any substantive
information disclosed in your communication, can be collected, correlated and
used by other users and third parties and may result in unsolicited messages
from other users or third parties. Such activities are beyond our control. We
make no representations, covenants or warranties about the discoverability of
your identity by methods beyond our control. If you use a Public Area, you are
solely responsible for your own communications and the consequences of posting
those communications.
Catholic Healthcare Partners Participants
Employees and other individuals affiliated with Catholic Healthcare Partners
("CHP") participating in the Interactive Services of the eHealthConnection.com
Website, and/or contributing content to the eHealthConnection.com Website, do
so as individuals and not in any official capacity. Their opinions and expressions
do not represent the opinions, expressions or official position of the eHealthConnection.com
Website, CHP or any of CHP's subsidiaries unless expressly stated..
Disclaimer - Advertising and Shopping
The eHealthConnection.com Website provides links to a variety of commercial websites offering products and services . The advertising is not a source of funding for ehealthconnection.com. We assume no responsibility for the appropriateness, fitness or reliability of the products or services offered for sale on such websites. You enter into any transactions with these companies at your own risk, under the terms and conditions of each website. We make no representations, warranties or covenants about these companies, products or services.
Disclaimer - Technology
We do not warrant against human and machine errors, omissions, delays, interruptions
or losses, including loss of data. We cannot and do not guarantee or warrant
that files available for downloading from the eHealthConnection.com Website
will be free of infection, viruses, worms, Trojan Horses or other codes that
manifest contaminating or destructive properties. We do not warrant or guarantee
that the functions or services provided by us will be uninterrupted or error-free
or that defects in the eHealthConnection.com Website will be corrected.
Disclaimer - Find A Doctor
The eHealthConnection.com Website provides information about health care providers
("Providers") who are members in good standing of the medical staffs
of hospitals affiliated with CHP, or are employed by CHP or one of its affiliates.
The eHealthConnection.com Website can also help you find a Provider who meets
your specifications. Please note that when we provide you with the name of a
Provider who meets your specifications we are not recommending that Provider
or referring you to that Provider. Information about a Provider's specific area
of practice is provided by the Provider, who is solely responsible for the accuracy
of that information. We do not guarantee the reliability, accuracy or completeness
of information contained on the eHealthConnection.com Website about a particular
Provider. If you are seeking information about a Provider's participation with
a specific health care plan, that information may be available, however, due
to frequent changes in insurance coverage, we recommend that you always check
with the Provider's office regarding insurance specifics.
Terms of Use Please read these conditions carefully before using this site.
eHealthConnection.com provides complimentary Internet-based communications
and information services to the consumer. By using this site, you
acknowledge your agreement to these terms and conditions. Please read this
information carefully. If you do not agree to all of the terms and
conditions of this agreement, do not use this site. eHealthConnection.com
may periodically update these terms and conditions. Please periodically
review because your continued use of this site will mean you accept those
changes.
How You May Use Our Materials
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and foreign laws. You may download, use, and copy the materials found on CHP
Sites for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided that all copies that
you make of the material must retain any copyright, trademark or other proprietary
notice located on the site which pertain to the material being copied. Except
as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any
copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right in the material
or the products, services, processes or technology described therein. All such
rights are retained by CHP, its subsidiaries, and/or any third party owner of
such rights.
You may not create framed links to CHP Web Sites without express written permission
from CHP.
You may not sell or modify the content or reproduce, display, publicly perform,
distribute or otherwise use the content in any way for any public or commercial
purpose. The use of the content on any other web site or in a networked computer
environment for any purpose is prohibited. None of the content, including any
software, may be reversed engineered, disassembled, decompiled, reproduced,
transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer
language, retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical,
photo reproduction, recordation or otherwise), resold or redistributed without
the prior written consent of CHP, except as expressly set forth above.
How You May Use Our Marks
The CHP names and logos and all related product and service names, design marks
and slogans are the trademarks or service marks of CHP, or its subsidiaries
or affiliates (collectively "CHP"). You are not authorized to use
any CHP name or mark in any advertising, publicity or in any other commercial
manner without the prior written consent of CHP. Requests for authorization
should be made to CHP's Trademark Manager.
Use Of Interactive Areas
CHP may from time to time place bulletin boards and/or chat rooms on the Site
which are solely to enable communication between Site visitors. CHP may also
from time to time place e-mail inks on the Site, which are solely to enable
Site visitors to communicate by e-mail with CHP. If you use a public area, you
are solely responsible for your own communications, the consequences of posting
those communications, and your reliance on any communications found in the interactive
areas. In cases where you feel threatened or believe someone else is in danger,
you should contact your local law enforcement agency immediately. If you
think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately.
Although CHP may from time-to-time monitor or review discussions, chats, postings,
transmissions, bulletin boards and the like on the Site, CHP does not do so
actively or regularly, and is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility
or liability arising from the contents of any such communications nor for any
error, defamation, libel, obscenity, profanity or inaccuracy contained in any
such communication.
Any communication that you post on the Site (apart from your personal profile)
is considered to be non-confidential. Do not send or post anything that you
deem confidential or proprietary. Any feedback, data, answers, questions,
comments, suggestions, ideas, or the like which you send to us may be used by
CHP or its affiliates for any purpose, including but not limited to, reproduction,
disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. CHP is free to
use, without any compensation to you, any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques
contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever,
including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products
and/or services using such information. By uploading or transmitting information
you grant to CHP a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide, non-exclusive
license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit,
translate, distribute, perform, and display the communication alone or as part
of other works in any form, media or technology whether now known or hereafter
developed, and to sub-license such rights through multiple tiers of sub-licenses.
Additionally, CHP has the right to use any questions, comments, or other information
submitted by users in books, articles, commentaries, research or in similar
ways, without the consent of the user. You warrant that any communications you
upload or transmit to this Site do not infringe any patent, trademark, trade
secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party.
In consideration of being allowed to use the interactive areas, you agree that
you shall refrain from the following prohibited conduct and that such conduct
shall constitute a material breach of the terms and conditions of use. You are
prohibited from posting or transmitting slanderous, unlawful, threatening, defamatory,
libelous, obscene, pornographic, profane, fictitious, licentious, lewd, violent,
hateful, abusive, insulting, harassing or threatening material or any material
that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal
offense or give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state,
federal or foreign law. You are prohibited from any form of direct or indirect
personal attack or harassment. You are prohibited from posting any material
that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy
or publicity rights of others. You are prohibited from posting advertisements
or solicitations of business. You are prohibited from impersonating other people,
posting chain letters or pyramid schemes, "spamming" (sending a message
more than once), posting or transmitting charity requests or petitions for signatures,
and sending unsolicited mass e-mailings to other users. You are prohibited from
posting any information which contains any virus, worm, Trojan horse or other
code which is contaminating or destructive to the files or programs of CHP or
any of its users or any other parties.
CHP reserves the right to but is not obligated to record, monitor, investigate,
edit, disclose, delete or remove any content from the Site for any reason, and/or
eject any user from all or a portion of the Site for not adhering to these terms
of use. CHP reserves the right to terminate any user's access to any or all
areas upon the user's breach of these terms of use. CHP does not screen communications
in advance and is not responsible for screening or monitoring material posted
by members or any other person or entity.
Jurisdiction
The CHP Web Sites are operated from a site in the State of Ohio United States of America. We make no representation
that materials found at our sites are appropriate or available for use in other
locations. If you access our sites from other locations, you are responsible
for compliance with local laws. For further information on Intellectual property
matters contact CHP's Intellectual Property Manager. These legal notices are
governed by the substantive laws of the State of Maryland. You expressly agree
that sole and exclusive jurisdiction for any claim involving CHP, its officers,
directors, employees, agents, Licensors and Suppliers, contributors and editors,
or any related affiliate, shall be in the appropriate state or federal court
located in the State of Maryland.
Complete Agreement
Except as expressly provided in a particular legal notice on the Site, these
terms and conditions, and any amendments thereof, constitute the entire agreement
between you and CHP with respect to the use of the Site, including but not limited
to, any software and Content.
If any provision of these legal notices is found to be invalid by any court
having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect
the validity of the remaining provisions of these legal notices, which shall
remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of the legal notices shall
be deemed a waiver of any other legal notice.
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